4.

3.(1) Any regional head of a religion or religious sect desiring to manufacture and sell sacramental wine shall make an application to the collector for a licence. The application shall contain the following particulars, namely:

1. Name and address of the applicant;
2. Place where sacramental wine is to be manufactured;
3. Description and plan in duplicate of the manufactory;
4. A statement in triplicate specifying the number, size and description of the fermenting, filtering and settling vessels and such other permanent apparatus as are proposed to be used in the manufactory;
5. A statement showing the maximum quantity of sacramental wine proposed to be manufactured at the manufactory during the currency of the licence;
6. A statement showing the region to which the sacramental wine will be distributed after manufacture together with the number and names of persons with their designations in the region and the quantity of sacramental wine to be distributed to each such person;
7. whether sacramental wine was manufactured in the manufactory in the past and if so, the period during which, sacramental wine was manufactured and the quantity there of and the number and names of places and persons and quantities of sacramental wine distributed to them.

(2) The applicant shall also give an undertaking to the effect that he shall abide by the provisions of the Act and the rules, regulations and orders made there under and the conditions of the licence.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this rule the head of a religion or a religious sect shall include a Bishop.

4.

On receipt of the application the Collector may make such inquiries as he may deem necessary, and if he is satisfied that the manufactory and the apparatus are suitable for the manufacture of sacramental wine and that there is no objection to grant the licence, he may with the previous approval of the Commissioner, grant a licence, to the applicant in Form S. W. II¹[on payment of²[a fee of Rs. 50.]. He shall retain the originals of the description, plan and statements refferred to in rule 3, forward the duplicates there of with a copy of the licence to the Officer-in-charge concerned and return the triplicate if any, to the licensee.

5.

No licence shall be granted for a period of more than one year at a time and in no case shall such period extend beyond 31st March next following the date of the commencement of the licensee.

6.

No licence may be granted for such quantity as may be fixed by the collector having regard to the maximum quantity of sacramental wine, if any, manufactured by the application and specified by him in his application.

7.

The licensee shall cany out all the operations connected with the manufacture of sacramental wine at the manufactory under the supervision of the Officer-in charge.

8.

The licensee shall use only raisins as base for the manufacture of sacramental wine without adding any sugar, fermenting agent or other substance either before, at the time of or after fermentation.